Chicago is having none of this administration's BS.

i really think there is legit political space for running on "we are going to dismantle ICE"

Goldman: This guy is so clearly trying to follow the Putin model—using the government to make money, making sure his allies control the most important companies in the country, including our media companies, doling out money by deregulating their industries, and taking money from them in return…

this is the news tonight. No need to frame it otherwise. zeteo.com/p/trump-epst... New tonight for @zeteo.com

Schiff: "Part of this is a consequence I think frankly of Chief Justice Roberts giving the president absolute immunity when it comes to his instructions to the DOJ. He can pretty much order them to do what he wants and know that he will never be held criminally liable."

Many thanks to Delano Massey at Axios for this very cool profile www.axios.com/2025/12/13/j...

We are going to need a restoration task force to reverse all of the old man’s vandalism.

Schiff: "I think we ought to bring Pam Bondi before the Senate Judiciary Committee demand answers as to why the DOJ has violated the law."

You don’t redact every mention of your name from The Pedophile Chronicles unless you’re guilty as fuck

Let's go. Impeachment it is.

Yoooooo Trump's deposition was noticed in a 2009 case by a victim against Jeffrey Epstein.

Garcia: This is not a real release. This is continuing a coverup that's been going on now for months.

A bespoke approach to increasing the number of women in the building trades:

Yeah it’s nice to see someone from The Bush Institute speaking up for Ukraine.. might’ve been even better if it was almost 4 years ago.. but I guess we take this

"Denver's City Council voted against a resolution to allow Key Lime Air to lease space at Denver International Airport over concerns about the airline’s immigration enforcement flights for ICE in recent months..." coloradonewsline.com/briefs/ice-f...

It IS our war. We made a deal with Ukraine that if they gave up their nukes, we’d protect them from Russia.

🚨BREAKING: The Department of Justice will fail to publicly release all of its files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein by a Friday deadline, violating a new federal law explicitly mandating that the trove of documents be turned over for public scrutiny. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The most corrupt president in modern U.S. history should be behind bars. 🚨 Newly obtained recording from late 2020: Trump is heard pressuring the Speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives to convene a special legislative session to overturn his election loss.

Fights, hunger strikes, censorship, retaliations, tear gassing, no janitorial staff, rare meals, and no medical care. On International Migrant’s Day, a coalition of groups organized a rally outside of Adelanto City Hall to share what’s happening at the privately owned GEO detention center for ICE.

If your house of worship is silent about the cruelty and the attacks on your neighbors by ICE, you’re at the wrong church, mosque, synagogue, temple, or gurdwara. Powerful ad by Interfaith Alliance — a plea for humanity.

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There will come a time when people of good faith are empowered to uphold the law. When that time comes, Illinois will have the testimony and records needed to pursue justice to its fullest extent. The truth of what Trump and his masked agents are doing in Chicago will be told.

BREAKING: After ordering a report on what went wrong in the 2024 election, DNC Chair Ken Martin is now refusing to release the report, claiming doing so would be counterproductive. This lack of transparency kills trust, disenfranchises voters, and shows weakness. Just ridiculous. Indefensible.

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

IUPAT President @jimmy-iupat.bsky.social is right: Temporary Protected Status recipients are rigorously vetted, pay taxes, and do work in critical industries. They are part of our communities and our unions—they deserve respect and protection. America’s unions will keep fighting for them.

Tomorrow is the deadline for the DOJ to produce the Epstein files. The Epstein Files Transparency Act requires specific details about anything redacted and an individualized legal justification for any redaction. Thomas Massie has said that lack of compliance is a crime. Buckle up, in other words.

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I will be donating because Sheryl does so much work for people PRO-BONO and needs to be able to hire someone to assist. She also fundraises to support others but not herself. If you can support, please do.

Just a complete disaster. TikTok is now state-run media on behalf of Trump.

There is one photo in this House Oversight pic dump of Epstein being massaged by two girls while another kneels between his legs. Let us never forget that there are 1000+ of these victims, identities unknown, who were raped and trafficked as girls, and will never recover from what was done to them.

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Feels to me like the last quote here is more devastating and incriminating than even the birthday book and the photos and the rest.

Gift link. Tomorrow is going to be a day. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...

“it’s reasonable to ask questions about trans girls in sports” was always intended to mainstream transphobia. It’s absurd that people fell for it. Democrats are constantly letting oppressors set the terms of debate instead of just saying “no, fuck you.”

Only a person easily bribed would think that everyone else is easily bribed. $1776 to the soldiers. $1500 to you, to cover a lifetime of medical expenses. $2000 tariff refund. A man with billions of dollars thinks you can be bought for 2 grand.

NB: When I, a professor of law, profess that an act is unlawful, I am not doing it to inform the lawbreaker, but rather to inform you, the reader. So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.

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Muting a Black woman to claim the vote was unanimous is so incredibly on the nose

Crockett: As he stood up today in front of the American people, he sounded like a used car salesman. Like, let me just shout it out. Buy what I'm selling. Yes. This is a lemon. Yes. He is selling nothing but lemons

vanity fair photographer christopher anderson posts this story on his instagram, suggesting he intentionally posed stephen miller underneath a painting of native americans

NYT: “In a newly obtained recording of a phone call from late 2020, President Trump can be heard pressing the speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives to hold a special legislative session to overturn Mr. Trump’s election loss.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...

From time to time I think about how I was pilloried on Twitter for calling him a fascist in 2016, how I was chastised for calling ICE centers concentration camps in 2019, and about commentators on our own side who truly lost it when I said Biden wasn't fighting back. newrepublic.com/article/2042...

More than half a billion dollars. Insane.

This is just five minutes. Please watch this and share it with anyone you think might be moved by it. And then call your US rep and tell them to vote AGAINST all of the anti-trans bills Republicans are pushing this week. Find your rep at reps.fyi

BREAKING on MS NOW: Jack Smith, in his opening statement to House Judiciary, says: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power."

There will come a time when this country looks back in shame at what it did to kids who desperately wanted nothing more than to be themselves and to be free.

occurs to me that we might be getting the "there's a problem of lonely males with no friends or romantic partners" and "there's a lucrative industry of toxic male influencers who tell young men to act like assholes" causation arrow backwards